The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.
AUDRE LORDEThere are no new ideas. There are only new ways of making them felt.
More Audre Lorde Quotes
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Our visions begin with our desires.
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We are all in the process of becoming.
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We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.
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I remember how being young and Black and gay and lonely felt. A lot of it was fine, feeling I had the truth and the light and the key, but a lot of it was purely hell.
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You need to reach down and touch the thing that’s boiling inside of you and make it somehow useful.
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I learned so much from listening to people. And all I knew was, the only thing I had was honesty and openness.
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Anger is loaded with information and energy.
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I wish to raise a Black man who will not be destroyed by, nor settle for, those corruptions called power by the white fathers who mean his destruction as surely as they mean mine.
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Women are powerful and dangerous.
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I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me must be spoken, made verbal and shared, even at the risk of having it bruised or misunderstood.
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Tomorrow belongs to those of us who conceive of it as belonging to everyone; who lend the best of ourselves to it, and with joy.
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The more I use my strength in the service of my vision the less I am afraid.
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I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.
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The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .
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Your silence will not protect you.
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